Navigating Towards Climate Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Resources
Guidance OECD
Infrastructure for a Climate-Resilient Future
The OECD’s 2024 report Infrastructure for a Climate-Resilient Future warns that rising global temperatures and increasingly severe climate impacts are placing critical infrastructure systems at growing risk. It emphasises that governments must embed climate resilience across the entire infrastructure lifecycle to avoid locking in vulnerability and to safeguard economic and social well-being for decades to come. The report also highlights that investing in resilient infrastructure delivers strong economic returns and co-benefits, calling for whole-of-government action, stronger financing mechanisms and greater use of Nature-based Solutions.
Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend
This first Biennial Report on Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend from the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) brings together for the first time a unique body of evidence to make a compelling economic, political, and financial case to radically upscale investment in infrastructure resilience. The Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI) developed by a consortium of scientific and technical organizations, has generated, for the first time ever, a suite of publicly available financial risk metrics for each country and territory in the world, for all major infrastructure sectors and for most major hazards.
Paving the way for scaling up investment in nature-based solutions along coasts and rivers – How to finance and accelerate implementation of nature-based solutions
Pathway For Increasing Nature-based Solutions In NDCS. A Seven-Step Approach for Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through Nature-based Solutions
Summary of Good Practice of Successful Project Preparation Facilities
This document analyses project preparation tools, approaches, main bottlenecks, and solutions, by presenting three case studies as well as highlights from experts’ interviews. Each case study focuses on a project preparation facility (PPF) that is active at the subnational level in either Latin America or Asia.
Guidance European Financing Institutions Working Group on Adaptation to Climate Change
Integrating climate change information and adaptation in project development: Emerging experience from practitioners
This document brings together emerging experience in the development of strategies and plans, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies. It is intended to help practitioners ensure that climate change risks and vulnerabilities are properly assessed and that appropriate and robust adaptation measures are implemented.
Climate change adaptation of major infrastructure projects: A stock-taking of available resources to assist the development of climate resilient infrastructure
This study reviewed the availability of resource materials that can support developers to integrate climate change adaptation into infrastructure projects. It provides a summary of available resources that contribute to the preparedness of all EU Member States with regards to applying the climate change requirements of the EuropeanStructural and Investment Funds programming period 2014-2020. It also identifies some of the ongoing good practices of Member States in adapting to climate change
This document provides a practical guide for Governments to improve project preparation practices. It provides guidance on the enabling environment, financing, infrastructure planning and project prioritisation, project feasibility, reviews and approvals, and project communication. This is supported by a series of case studies
Lifelines: The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity – Strengthening New Infrastructure Assets A Cost-Benefit Analysis
This supplementary report to the World Bank’s Lifelines document explores at a deeper level the benefits and costs associated with making infrastructure systems resilient to climate change. It provides broad analysis of thousands of scenarios at a system level to display the benefits of resilience.
A Framework and Principles for Climate Resilience Metrics in Financing Operations
The report outlines a broad and flexible approach that can be applied to both assets and systems to assess the quality of infrastructure design and its performance results. Examples are provided to illustrate metrics at the input and output levels and showcase a hybrid approach to finance and monitoring.
Resilience Rating System : A Methodology for Building and Tracking Resilience to Climate Change
The World Bank has developed a Resilience Rating System that considers both the resilience of infrastructure and the resilience that infrastructure offers to society. The system is designed to enable decision makers to track resilience, identify best practice and assess the benefits. The report provides guidance on how to mitigate risk across different sectoral and country contexts.
Driving Finance Today for the Climate Resilient Society of Tomorrow
This report by the GCA provides a thorough review of the current situation within the financesector identifying barriers restricting access to financing for climate–resilient development. It provides recommendations for lifting the limit on financial flows and making developments more robust with longer-term perspectives.
Climate Resilient Public Private Partnerships: A Toolkit for Decision Makers
Contains easy to use tools and guidance for a number of procurement activities. This resource also focuses on PPPs but many of the tools could be used on other types of project.
BS ISO 20400:2017 Sustainable procurement – Guidance
While this resource is sustainability focused it contains guidance on a number of procurement actions with high applicability for climate resilience too.
Improving Socially Sustainable Design and Construction in Developing Countries
This document is relevant for construction projects in an international development context and provides clear recommendations to build sustainably and to ensure successful implementation and adoption. The recommendations can be applied to buildings as well as infrastructure.
A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities.
This UNEP document focusses on design; however, the conclusion of this report includes a list of questions that a contractor can use to assess whether climate resilience has been considered. It can be included in on-site quality control documentation.
Technical guidance on the climate proofing of infrastructure in the period 2021-2027
This report by the European Commission is intended to provide technical guidance on climate proofing infrastructure. Chapter 4 provides recommendations on climate proofing across the project lifecycle, including construction. Annexes C and D also provide further considerations for climate proofing infrastructure during the construction phase.
This report has been prepared by the Canadian Construction Association and includes recommendations for the Government to adapt to climate change with respect to infrastructure investment. This report is an example of how the construction industry has come together to leverage their influence to promote climate adaptation and resilience.
Completing the Picture: How the Circular Tackles Climate Change
Concentrating on five key areas this report illustrates how designing out waste, keeping materials in use, and regenerating farmland can significantly reduce emissions. It demonstrates how businesses, financial institutions, and policymakers can build a resilient economy while playing an essential role in reaching climate targets.
In this report, Arup evaluate some of ways in which Circular Economy principles can be applied to the decommissioning of existing Energy Power plants, exploring the social, economic, and environmental benefits this creates for the local communities and surrounding areas. It explores the applications that Circular Economy principles can have in the design and operation of new power plants.
Developing Policies for the end-of-life of energy infrastructure: coming to terms with the challenges of decommissioning.
This paper introduces the magnitude and variety of net-positive end-of-life challenges to encourage the development of reasonable policies for current and future decommissioning projects. The paper provides the basis for the interdisciplinary thinking required to deliver an integrated decommissioning policy that incorporates circular economy principles to maximize value throughout the lifecycle of energy infrastructure.
Managing Infrastructure Assets for Sustainable Development
Chapter 6 of this handbook provides details on the impact of climate change on asset management, climate hazard and risk assessment, and high level guidance on interventions to mitigate climate risk at the Operations and Maintenance phase.
